The Out of Town Thread - LXXI - Everyone is better than us... except the Oilers!

So Gionta skating outside the crease, trying to avoid the hit, and accidentally hitting Reimer with his butt is the same as Kadri going right through the crease, following through with the hit, leading with his elbow and falling on Backstrom?

So Gionta skating outside the crease, trying to avoid the hit, and accidentally hitting Reimer with his butt is the same as Kadri going right through the crease, following through with the hit, leading with his elbow and falling on Backstrom?

Is this honestly being discussed on the main board?

The thread on the Leafs board is even more delusional than the one on the main board.

If Ott does the same to a Leafs goalie this weekend will the same Leaf fans defending Kadri also defend him for the play?

Edit.. So Jeff O'Neil and some other guy just on TSN said Backstrom flopped and sold the call.. WTH is in the water in TO?

Darren Dreger ‏@DarrenDreger 39m Oilers offered three 2nd round picks for Braydon Coburn at the Draft and couldn't close the deal. Trades in season are much harder to make.

Sort of shows how valuable top 4 d-men are.

He has good size, solid in his own end, not much offensively and not a big bruiser...makes 4.5 mil this year and next 2...and Edmonton was stilling to move 3 2nds for him...in an off season where nobody wanted to take on salary.

Kadri's behaviour strikes me as the real problem with enforcers. They create a culture of irresponsibility by emboldening players like Kadri or Grabovski. You put Kadri on a team like Detroit and you'd never see that attitude. I don't think it's a question of Kadri knowing that enforcers on his team have his back either, its more the culture it promotes. It makes players aggressive.

Nazem Kadri is a ******* in part due to Carlyle's persuasive ability to turn everyone he touches into a dirty little *****, but I wouldn't be surprised if he's naturally just a bit of a *****, like a wannabe Corey Perry. Orr wasn't on the ice when he decided to smash Backstrom or Granlund, he was doing his thing on the first line. Unless Fraser was on the ice, he was doing his thing without any enforcer "protecting" him from backlash.